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    <h1>Current Gnomus @ MILI Project Activities</h1>
    <p>
        Dr. Baker, in collaboration with MILI’s directors, Dr. George Gagnon and Martin Perlmutter, and with Gnomus’ 
        partners at the University of California, Berkeley, is currently engaged in converting earlier Gnomus card-
        and board-based science activities into web-based games that teach integrated science, math and engineering
        concepts. These games will then be used as the basis for national and international teams of students to
        develop new games covering science and math topics in addition to those that will be posted at the Gnomus
        and MILI web sites. The involvement by teams of middle and high school students in carrying out the research
        and design of new educational “games” is based on Gnomus’ extensive earlier experiences in facilitating
        student interns who learned science and math concepts through the Gnomus Participatory Learning project.
        Among the science activities developed by Gnomus student interns and later used extensively by middle school
        teachers are the following:
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    <ul>
        <li><strong>The Periodic Table</strong></li>
        <li><strong>Chemical Reactions</strong></li>
        <li><strong>Chemistry of Living Systems</strong></li>
        <li><strong>Ecology—Biomes</strong></li>
        <li><strong>Ecology—Tropical Rain Forests</strong></li>
        <li><strong>Ecology--Limnology</strong></li>
        <li><strong>Heredity</strong></li>
    </ul>
    <p>
        By partnering with educators at MILI, Gnomus will extend its educational activities in science and math to a
        world-wide community of students and teachers. How we envisage this being done is described at the MILI web site,
        <a href="http://www.miligames.org/">www.miligames.org</a>. Existing Gnomus Card Deck and Board activities will
        be transferred into freely accessible, web-based, cooperative games designed to teach integrated math and science
        concepts, grades 2 – 12. Unique features of the project include:
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    <p>
        Cooperative participation by students in field-testing of Gnomus “games” that have already been created by
        Dr. Baker and by Gnomus Interns under his guidance; and
    </p>
    <p>
        Emphasis on student participation in the research, design and testing of new educational games that students
        create under Gnomus’ web-based and teacher/facilitator guidance;
    </p>
    <p>
        Participation by an international community of students working together to create these
        materials, as well as to solve problems cooperatively;
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    <p>
        Involvement of an international community of teachers in evaluating the educational value
        of the newly developed Gnomus games;
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    <p>
        Integration of all materials into MILI’s Participatory World Games in which students from around the world
        work together through the web to relate mathematical and scientific concepts to the concrete realities of
        the different worlds in which they live. Thus, they shall be actively learning about science and math in
        relation to issues such as their local housing, health, jobs, ecology, pollution, industry, etc.
    </p>
    <p>
        Developing communication techniques that allow students speaking different languages to work together,
        to improve their communication skills, to solve problems of mutual benefit and to learn more about each
        others’ cultures.
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